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Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the unleash-the-upgrades dept.

Barence noted that Firefox has announced release candidate 2 of their highly popular web browser. You can read the release notes while you download. And since my copy just finished downloading, I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any

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  1. Re:Old Look? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firefox 2.0 Classic theme works great but to use it you have to:
    -Register and log in to Firefox Addons
    -Attempt to override the version check and install the theme
    -Go to your %appdata% just after it fails and look for the temp XPI that it downloaded
    -Copy it to the desktop and extract it with winrar
    -Change the RDF file's <maxversion> to * or 3.0RC2 or something
    -Zip the files back up, normal compression, rename to xpi
    -Drag the file off the desktop into your firefox window to install!

  2. Re:Crash by bunratty · · Score: 5, Informative

    This link may help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes

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    What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
  3. Re:Actual Release Notes by Victor+Antolini · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can always check out http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ It's not quite up to date right now but it's great for keeping track of development. He maintains this list which may be helpful: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/trunk-for-firefox-3.html

  4. Re:Read this by Darlo888 · · Score: 5, Informative

    And when you do that for the Mozilla page, "this website does not supply identification information", which proves that this feature is a complete waste of programming time. If the website doesn't supply the information then there's nothing to verify to make yourself more secure. That's because it only works for encrypted connections.
  5. Home page has RC link... by rklrkl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember the good-old days when Mozilla (and Firefox) release notes actually talked about bugs fixed, features introduced, and interesting things? When each version actually informed you about what had changed? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/releasenotes/ seems fairly reasonable to me. Granted, the differences between RC1 and RC2 aren't flagged (because virtually nothing but some blocker bugs were the changes between the two), but they *did* flag "Improved in Beta 5" in the equivalent Beta 5 release notes.

    Going to mozilla.org (or .com) and trying to find betas is now impossible. No, really... there are no links to non-release versions. Oh come on! How hard did you bother reading the home page? What's New on the right hand side has a "Firefox 3 Sneak Peak" link for goodness' sake! And even if you drifted to mozilla.org's home page instead, guess what? Developer News on the right hand side announces the RC2 release as I speak. You sir, are either one lazy so-and-so or just a total troll!

    I miss the time when Mozilla was a user-friendly organization, when everything was public and *easy to find*. I miss the time when people actually made the effort to check the current state of Web sites before slagging them off. Everything related to Mozilla (bar a few closed security bugs, which are opened once the fix is published) is very public and trivially easy to find. It's a shame that some people just don't think before they post.